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Hellnight

Hellnight is a lesser-known first-person survival horror adventure.

This needs some investigation.
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Specifically:

  • Possibly more regional differences and graphics.

Unused Graphics#

A crude placeholder for a note.

A crude placeholder for a key.

A simple placeholder texture.

What appears to be an early title screen.

A leftover from a demo version. The translation is: That's it for 'Dark Messiah development version'. Thank you for your interest. Please wait for the product version to be released.

Japan

Europe

An early-looking options screen. For whatever reason, the image is much darker in the European version.

Unused Text#

There is a small bit of text in the executable suggesting that the game was originally spread across two discs:

Dark Messiah Disk 1
Dark Messiah Disk 2

Regional Differences#

Japan

Europe

Aside from the logo change, the Atlus copyright was moved and updated in the European version.

Japan

Europe

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The animated logo for Dennou Eizo is different between regions.

Japan

Europe

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Watch on YouTube

The intro FMV is also different.